On Wed, Aug 26, 2009, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > > Dave Thompson wrote: > >>> From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org On Behalf Of Pankaj Aggarwal > >>> Sent: Tuesday, 25 August, 2009 05:06 > >> > >>> I am using cygwin on windows xp to compile FIPS Openssl 1.2 using > >> Visual studio 2005. > >> > >> Apparently you mean cygwin _perl_. The MS compiler and linker > >> (which are the only ones permitted under the validated policy) > >> run in the normal Windows environment not the Unixoid cygwin one. > > > > Dave, I'm pretty sure you are the one confused. The last I looked, > > which was a while ago, MinGW was the only option for building openssl > > in FIPS mode. But they have introduced a CC flag, so all bets are off. > > I reread this this moring and Dave is right, he just confused me :) > You need to set up the MSYS/MinGW toolchain instead of Microsoft C > to build at least the FIPS canister. The fact that you installed > cygwin already is a good start, but you need to point your path to > reference the MSYS/MinGW tools first.
You do not need MSYS/MinGW AT ALL for the 1.2 validation, you can build everything using VC++ including fipscanister.lib (it's a .lib for VC++). Steve. -- Dr Stephen N. Henson. OpenSSL project core developer. Commercial tech support now available see: http://www.openssl.org ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
